accounts to help fund terrorism also the european parliament has said well they've tried to put in place some tougher laws on data sharing with the with the united states and also told member states to put in place their their own. their own precautions to try and plug holes in what seems to be a very leaky ship of data here in europe with all of that that leakage heading towards the united states now it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. and we'll bring you more expert opinion on the fallout from the u.s. snooping scandal later this hour as we talk to the executive director of open rights group. the n.s.a. revelations have had on a business communities the focus of today's kaiser report and he's in it oh and let's listen to it relations kill i.b.m. hardware sales in china wednesday evening it was i.b.m.'s turn to confess that its hardware sales in china had simply collapsed every word was colored by edward snowden's revelation about the n.s.a.'s hand in glove collaboration with american tech compa

accounts to help fund terrorism also the european parliament has said well they've tried to put in place some tougher laws on data sharing with the with the united states and also told member states to put in place their their own. their own precautions to try and plug holes in what seems to be a very leaky ship of data here in europe with all of that that leakage heading towards the united states now it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. anderson on this one are joined live from brussels by glenn ford he's a former member of the european parliament mr ford welcome to art see it's very good to see here with us so talking about this latest n.s.a. scandal why exactly would the u.s. be spying on the leader of a country that has long been a very close ally. but they routinely spying on everybody and everything why i mean angela merkel surprised that they're listening to her conversations who do they think the u.s. was spying on the local taxi drivers to berlin. while most people who are at the top i me

personal data, in the european union and transatlantic lee, and the proposed regulation that the european parliamentoted on monday has to be adopted before the european elections in 2014, and this has to be signaled by the heads of state, and it has to be accomplished by the member states. >> from the french institute of international defense studies, what can be done? >> that is a quick question -- good question. there is what could be done and what should be done. the provisions passed on monday are very important to. the question is whether it'll be possible to come to an agreement between the nationstates that oppose the european union, and without affecting the substance, so i think there should be, there is the fact that there is a possibility of the right to be forgotten, the explicit consent to give your data to foreign companies. it is very important. >> it seems there is some consensus building up within the european union. we will see what transpires until the end of the week. but assuming they agree, what can they do? >> the problem is once you pass legislation, you need to enforce it, a

and the european parliament is taking on electronic cigarettes. it took a vote that would plan to read classifies the fake smoke devices as something that would be available only by prescription. lex some 8 million smokers have switched from tobacco to e cigarettes and have a gum known as vapors. it is designed to wean smokers off of the harmful effects of tobacco. but critics argue not enough research has been done into the potential health effects. and the european parliament is set to vote on whether they should be reclassified as medical products am only available from pharmacies. there has been intense lobbying from all sides. tougher regulation could strangle the industry. the pharmaceutical industry is mostly in favor of regulating their ease cigarettes -- there he cigarettes, which they see as competition for their anti- tobacco products. >> the lobbyists are very present, not just from companies, but also governments. these viewpoints are dependent on their own economic interests. for us, the most important thing is to find a response to

well i think what we've seen now in the european parliament is that we have suspended the agreement or they have passed a resolution to suspend it so it needs to be approved by the nations in the european council this is one first step but then the next big step would be to think about is a safe harbor agreement and to come up with a general data protection. reform in your rope this is a process where the discussion is already running right now and i think this is a very good thing to do because you always have to take into consideration that surveillance the public private divide although these surveillance programs are done by the n.s.a. are done by the secret service that is maybe not really bound to the law in europe of course all data that is collected in any way can later be f. used and if you look at prism than many surveillance measures by the n.s.a. feet by. by. human common mr stone but you mention the issue of prison prison was actually a relative of the genie program that was used to spy on all the diplomats inside the united nations a young spokesperson for data protection

the european parliament could be voting tomorrow on on that mandate and those negotiations will follow to be announced as opening again at the summit in november ok well let's be frank here europe is not living through its best of times at the moment economically speaking and maybe china is you know prematurely optimistic about investing in the region. this is a two way process i mean the whole point of the e.u. china investment treaty will be to make it easier for europeans to invest in china for chinese to invest in europe and their whole series of sectors in terms of government procurement services tell a call now where the europeans can easily compete with and and make big sales in china if we if we get that access in into the chinese economy ok well since the two thousand and eight financial crisis there's been talk increasingly that the you won the chinese who won might take over as the reserve currency. what do you think about that i mean is this really possible and could that happen. well it depends on what timescale you are talking about frankly in the short term no but increa

judith, thank you for joining us from the european parliament in strasberg.hans, thank you for joining us. olivia, our media watch segment. we have been looking at the italian newspapers. >> in deed. the editorials are very accusatory starting with this one. an article pointing the finger saying it's not the fault of the migrants or italy. they have been completely unaware of the scale of the problem of illegal immigration and point out a goes beyond sovereignty and the only thing that could work which would be union wide and there's no point in looking at italy. they bring up this argument that the division we have seen between northern and southern europe, italy greece, malta, and spain are those affecting -- are those affect did. they need to sit up and take notice because we are those affect did. it is never more better illustrated in this illustration where the highest amount of death or disappeared people are and it's all over the coast of north africa and very much concentrated in southern europe, nothing really above naples. that shows the statistics

the sole of the biggest mobilization of people around you know an issue going through the european parliament was the question of act and act it was about undermining people's right to freedom of the international right to privacy on the internet and it mobilized with millions of people signed petitions tens of thousands of people protested this is something that people are rightly concerned about they're even more concerned about it know with the revelations of you know five hundred million pieces of information taken from germany alone in one month by u.s. authorities and so i think there is an interest in this the point is that a lot of pressure needs to be built and the peace needs to be built on institutions in order to ensure that in any way people's rights to privacy are vindicated for example things that are needed should happen is that the swift agreement which transfers information about bank information at the bank accounts of people between the e.u. and the us that should be suspended the e.u. u.s. free trade talks ongoing at the moment should be suspended all of those things unti

live from the white house, the european parliament committee, they wrapped up, what happened? >> their first port of call mike rogers. you may remember over the weekend he was saying on the sunday talk shows that europe should in fact be grateful for all the surveillance keeping them safe. much talk after that meeting those, a frank dialogue, ongoing dialogue but this is how the chairman of that european delegation put the problems as europe sees it off all of this nsa surveillance. >> we want to figure out why this kind of mass itch activities -- massive activities happening. in the end we're fighting a battle in terms of security, we need to get that balance right. we're concerned too about security and we made that pretty clear. but also, there is balance to be struck in the privacy of citizens. >> in addition the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the european parliament is also part of that delegation, apparently suggesting that trade talks between the u.s. and europe maybe put in jeopardy if the surveillance isn't addressed to their satisfaction >> and have we

european union has no jurisdiction to regulate the activities of intelligence services but if they agreed to to require illegal bases for transfer of personal data to third countries as has been proposed in the parliament now this would be a major step forward because then there would have to be a political agreement between the governments also between the us and the european governments what intelligence services should be allowed to do in the future so it's a two step process today is only this is a general measure which cannot directly influence the activities of intelligence services but it's an important step forward and what does this mean though for the average person such as yourself and me as well well the the rights of the european citizens will be strengthened if this measure is adopted in europe there will be still would probably be problems to effectively control and monitor what intelligence services are doing but the problem is much larger than this i think because google amazon and facebook and apple and all the other big american companies need strict rules which they have to attain to when they want to do business in europe and when it comes to these rules are facebook google apple a

he is a member of the european parliament, fabrizio bertot.from london, costas lapavitsas, author of "crisis in the eurozone." he teaches at soas in the eurozone. francesco saraceno of the osce. thomas friang of europenova and valentin kreilinger. to celebrate his 77th birthday, silvio berlusconi telephoned a rally with his party in naples. [indiscernible] >> of course, it was not his 37th, it was his 77th. are you surprised at the fact that silvio berlusconi, who recently said he was going to take more and more of a backseat role? >> maybe we should adjust to the famous smile between angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy that actually killed silvio berlusconi politically at the european level. he is still trying to come back. he still wants to be in politics. but at the european level, there is a deep lack of confidence from his peers. if he actually takes a more active role and tries to take a more active role in italy, this sort of political instability that comes along and that is now appearing is dangerous for the european union as well. >> i

some huge demonstrations here in berlin but we're now starting to see real developments the european parliament suspended the swift accord with the united states know what the swift agreement was as it shared banking data between the united states and the e.u. it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states fury over the latest n.s.a. spying claims are already overshadowing the e.u. summit leaders from several european countries have sided with germany and france saying that snooping on allies is unacceptable but a former member of the european parliament in ford told my colleague event of the indignation has come too late. i'm surprised at how slow the reactions breanne and i believe that he's been pushed into it by public a pretty more than anything else because there's nothing new in the last few days but increasingly public opinion is is that right by what's been going on right and right after the very first away with indignation president obama said that all those surveillance practices inherited from the bush

accounts to help fund terrorism also the european parliament has said well they've tried to put in place some tougher laws on data sharing with the with the united states and also told member states to put in place their their own. their own precautions to try and plug holes in what seems to be a very leaky ship of data here in europe with all of that that leakage heading towards the united states now it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. and john's who's a spokesperson for data protection and a pirate pos he says despite current a righteous anger they determine authorities are reaping what they have so by fully complying with the controversial surveillance practices of think it was. the conservative government was protecting the secret service cooperation between the german services and the n.s.a. over a long time so i think edward snowden is right when he says that the german secret service and the german government is in bed with u.s. authorities and n.s.a. if you look at the whole n.s.a. scanda

parliament i reported it to the european parliament in two thousand and eleven and the european parliament wrote a letter to the world bank i had a very detailed chronology and the world bank never responded and then i've been reporting this to the u.s. congress and when the u.s. congress was asked to give a capital increase to the world bank they had asked for a government accountability office audit which never took place so i was reporting this to the international organization of supreme audit institutions and then i asked the board to require k. p.m.g. to do an audit of the world bank internal controls and k p m g did not follow the auditing standards so i reported this to the public company accounting oversight board i reported this to the f.c.c. but since the f.c.c. couldn't be bothered to sort out the insider trading for the federal reserve system they certainly weren't going to straighten out the bonds in the world bank so i bought a world bank bond and i sued under the securities laws and i also went to each and every attorney general in the states and i told the states that they

right forward former member of the european parliament mr forde thank you very much indeed for sharing it with us. stay with us for more international news out of the break. israel is the country iran threatens to wipe out those are done with them give it up to the iranian leadership openly says so in this sense there is no difference between rouhani enough but it is good good as a vehicle for his visit to new york rouhani publicly declared that their goal is to annihilate israel. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. by the see bush is secure. your party there's a good. news that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. mark t. c good laboratory kirby was able to build the most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything jim's mission is to teach the creation why it should care about humans in groups this is why you should care watch only on the r g dot com. this isn't c welcome bok already shut down the united states government now verges on another crisis although this one could go global washingto

cope with it let's now talk to felipe he's a member of the european parliament from belgium mr client thank you very much indeed for joining us here on our sheet so we know that these prime minister wants to more or is e.u. summit to address this issue and of course easily. this burden to be shared among other e.u. member states and obviously wants e.u. asylum laws to be overhauled what kind of reaction can we expect from the e.u. members. well i think many e.u. member states are aware of the problem and are willing i think to contribute to the burden that's you know caused by the need to control the southern borders and also the eastern borders of the european union. but i think we have to make good agreements about who's going to do was think everyone is aware of the seriousness of the problem and. when we have a european union with no internal border controls anymore it's in all it's in the interest of all the other member states to see to it that the external borders are being controlled. right but isn't that i mean the situation in the middle east and north africa does not seem t

be put in place by europe or new countries sharing any data with the united states and the european parliament saying that they will do everything they can but it's up to the individual member states to put in tougher laws of their own to try and plug what seems to be a very leaky ship here in europe with information on personal information from their from citizens going to the united states quite freely now we're also seeing businesses jumping on this telecom companies of course they are the ones that bear the brunt of any information being hacked we've seen deutsche telekom launching a campaign here in germany saying that they will only use german servers for german to german e-mail communications on the the proviso that we're going to we're not going to let any foreign country look at your e-mails it's only going to stay in germany and hopefully that will try and convince consumers that deutsche telekom of the people to go to because the n.s.a. have less ability to get their hands on that data now outside of europe we've also seen developments in brazil where they're wanting to put in place

with some demonstrations here in berlin but we're now starting to see real developments the european parliament. has suspended the swift accord with the united states now what the swift agreement was is it shared banking data between the united states and the e.u. it was supposed to allow terror investigations to see if money was being used from accounts to help fund terrorism also the european parliament has said well they've tried to put in place some tougher laws on data sharing with the with the united states and also told member states to put in place their their own. their own precautions to try and plug holes in what seems to be a very leaky ship of data here in europe with all of that that leakage heading towards the united states now it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. and johns who is the sparks passing for data protection and n.s.a. spy the pirate party says surf on that prove their n.s.a. is good at abusing privacy but not finishing terrorism and. the conservative government was protecting t

well earlier we talked to philip klein he's a member of the european parliament about how the e.u. can address the worsening migrant crisis and he says while the laws must be tightened the e.u. should also help the regions where the refugees are coming from. i think we have to see to it that many of these people people that are really a real refugees that they should be held in their region that would be the most ideal situation because it's just not possible for the e.u. to accept all the refugees coming from syria from sudan from all these countries that have serious problems we can just not have them all coming through the european union what we should do is help these countries help these regions to to to to accept refugees there to help the refugees there so that they can go back to their own country as soon as possible as soon as the problems are being under control. are to live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour on the program the day of the tragedy. is right here at about two pm local time that a blast read through past twenty nine. six

germany and france saying that snooping on allies is unacceptable but a former member of the european parliament glyn ford earlier told you to shop of one of the indignation has come too late they routinely spying on everybody and everything i'm surprised at how slow the reactions being and i believe that he's been pushed into it by publicly pretty more than anything else because there's nothing new in the last few days but increasingly public opinion is is that right by what's been going on right and right after that very first away with indignation president obama said that all those surveillance practices inherited from the bush era would be revised and reviewed but let's not take a listen to what president obama had to say to get that with let's now take a listen to what i have been able to do is examine. and scrub our intelligence services are operating and i'm confident that at this point we have struck the appropriate balance and i slightly unconvinced frankly i mean if you've got a boat multi-billion pound buying operation if you start excluding the. miracle then it's not much of a fire

more specifically the files that he handed over to journalist glenn greenwald meanwhile the european parliament committee on civil liberties met yesterday to talk about the state of privacy and surveillance during the meeting government accountability project national security and human rights director and frequent r.t. america guest just one raid act read a statement aloud on behalf of edward snowden himself here is part of it these are not decisions this should be me for a people but only by people after flow informed and fearless defeat. yet public defeat is not possible without public knowledge and in my country the cost for one in my position. of returning public knowledge to public hands has been persecution and exile. if we are to enjoy such to be in the future we cannot rely upon individual sacrifice. snowden in that letter went on to say that he wants a better way for whistleblowers to raise red flags about government to be else to talk all things n.s.a. r t web producer andrew blake joins me now on air and euro so let's start with the statement that we just heard from snowden how did

>> this is a delegation from the european parliament. the european parliament has begun an inquiriy into the operations. here is how the head of the delegation framed their visit. >> in the end we're fighting a battle of terms of security. we need to get that balance right. we're concerned too about security and we made that very clear. but also there's a balance to be struck with privacy of citizens. and i think these frank exchanges need to rebuild that very important trust. >> interestingly, that first meeting was with mike rogers, chairman of the house intelligence committee. over the weekend he was telling the weekend programs and sunday talk shows that europe should be grateful for all these surveillance. that is keeping them safe and that's very much what jay carney picked up on. it's always worth remembering that the head keith alexander kept talking about 56 are plots from surveillance. he was forced to admit that wasn't true. >> thank you. meanwhile the british priemghtse minister has spoken out about that as well. felicity bar

i'm leading the european parliament inquiry on the weekend, i'm aware that my country is subject to manye allegations, but most of the big countries, france, germany, and so on are implicated in this, so this is a very wide-ranging set of allegations being produce and communicated by the guardian and the "new york times." and really the way to look at this is to understand this is an unprecedented set of whistleblowering allegations which should make us think. because you have allegations of the nsa infiltrating, you know, commercial companies of -- of, you know, untils of ordinary citizens having their communications listened to. people may think this is acceptable. some do. but increasingly there is a feeling that this is disproportion at it, and it just didn't -- just can't be just about security. although security and the fight against terrorism -- >> i want to bring the discussion back to the current allegations and spying on 35 world leaders. now the european union no doubt very angry over it. what can the eu as a block do? >> that's a very good question. theeu after the lizbin tre

is accused of doing on european ministers and citizens actually and as a consequence the european parliament voted to suspend cooperation with washington and a financial data sharing deal this is in response to allegations made by former u.s. intelligence contractor edward snowden the n.s.a. spied on bank to bank messaging via the society for worldwide bank financial telecommunication otherwise known as swift which you've probably heard of so we've got our t. ball in based correspondent peter all of our right here now to talk us through the situation how much of an impact is this having on the economic relationship between the u.s. and europe that peter well the general reaction here in europe over all of the n.s.a. spying stuff is that these are spies spying is what they do but what it's come to business well there's a lot of trust that's involved in the deals that go on across the atlantic and it has really damaged the trust we were talking to people for the shows at all to about the. a base level of trust that now has been perhaps irreversibly damaged by the spying that's gone on we've se

you said brussels you should distinguish between the european commission you'd be in and the european parliament the components are certainly going to demand some strong measures they're going to go back on stare on the propositions or they're made in the past and they're going to said this nonsense has changed i mean there is also talk about ending the swift banking agreement with to the us the cooperation on banking issues so on that level yes that it will do something the whole matter is the european union the parliament so it is not the one that really the size that you've been commission and then we already have a statement like out of who the e.u. commissioner on the trade who says no we should go on with your houston's new free trade agreement so what does that tell me the job was just like i said on the longer term and a few weeks out of the media on down the big issue it will just go on and business as usual that is my expectation well let's take a look at ads in our germany and france here who say they are determined to establish the so-called no spy agreement with the united states be

they were hoping to wrap all this up by the european parliament elections next spring. at least they have something walking away from the summit, with some concrete take-homes. >> thank you so much for that. moving on. ball carrier and authorities -- bulgarian authorities confirm a bulgarian roma girl -- women as being the mother of a daughter taken by authorities. the biological mother had told authorities she gave the girl to a neighboring roma family who then moved to greece. news coming in, army officials say nigerian soldiers have killed 74 members of an islamist sect in a raid in the country's northeast on thursday. the offensive targeted tax -- camps in the northeastern state where militants have their strongest presence. voters in madagascar are going to the polls in the first elections since the military- backed coup four years ago. candidates are contending in the election, that has been postponed four times this year. >> the people of madagascar, lining up for a chance to end a four-year political crisis. >> i waited for these elections for a long time. it is

a german member of the european parliament tells nbc news that confidence is destroyed. today a german delegation is expected at the white house to meet with security officials. >>> overnight a domestic dispute in south carolina ends in an apparent murder-suicide with six people shot dead including two children. police say a man called 911 tuesday night telling operators he was feeling edgy b and wanted to harm himself. as deputies responded, a neighbor said she found a gunshot and that children from a nearby home were fleeing to hers. police confirmed the gunman had released four children before the shootings. >> it is a situation that just takes your heart. it is sad. it is horrific. your heart has to go out to everyone involved. >> police treated the incident as a hostage situation but when the s.w.a.t. team entered the home it was too late. >>> a massive dust storm leads to a deadly pileup on an arizona highway. at least three people are dead. there were multi p pl crashes on a dust-covered stretch of interstate 10. several others suffered injuries when a combination

the european parliament gave malala the zakharov prize for thought. award commemorates andrey zakharov. he won the peace prize in 1975. the president of the parliament praised malala for her strength. the pakistani taliban targeted her last year for promoting girls' education. gunmen shot her in the head as she was returning home from school. >> translator: her example encouraged a whole range of young girls and women to stand up for their rights and not allow themselves to be intimidated. [ applause ] >> some have suggested malala could win the nobel peace prize. the winner will be announced later on friday. >>> well, many global fans of japanese cartoons enjoy dressing up like their favorite characters. some business owners in japan have recognized the interest in this cosplay and it translates into profits. they're tapping into it to inject some life back into sloughing industries. >> reporter: people might think this is a european living room. and this looks like a factory. but cosplayers come here to model their fantasies on camera. young cosplay

the latest allegations come as a delegation from the european parliament is visiting washington to investigate claims on european leaders and citizens eavesdropping. >> the damage to the united states is so high that something has to be done on that. i hope that it will be successful because we need messages for our people that it can't happen on citizens or leaders. >> in rome they want to know if the nsa has listening to phone calls at the vatican. a report says the nsa spied on the vatican and his predecessor, and listened in on cardinals. the vatican says, "we are unaware of anything on the issue. in any case we have no concerns about it." >> french president francis hollande takes on the footy clubs on thursday, proposing a 75% top rate of tax. club bosses say it will make it impossible to compete at a european level and are threatening to cancel night matches scheduled for the final week of november. >> the boston red sox are champions after crushing st louis cardinals 6-1, kath turner reports. >> the boston party has just begun. cheer cheer. >> dozens of fans that couldn't get tickets t

european parliament members of germany and spain also spoke. the united nations says syria is on target to meet a deadline for destroying production equipment for its chemical weapons stockpile. inspectors say they been able to verify 21 of 23 chemical weapons sites with the remaining two unreachable because they're located in a conflict zone. syria is slated to destroy chemical facilities. a polio outbreak has been confirmed among children in northwest -- northeast area. at least 10 children in a province have been paralyzed with the disease. the world health organization says it is their first polio outbreak in syria since 1999. with thousands of syrian refugees fleeing their homes by the day, health workers are warning the disease could spread. the inter-american to mission on human rights has asked the u.s. to explain alleged abuses at guantanamo pay and great immediate access to investigators. citing the force-feeding of hunger striking prisoners, one panel member said the available evidence indicates a "general and systematic violation of

the european parliament awarded the sakharov prize for freedom of thought to the 16-year-old activist. the annual honor commemorates soviet scientist and dissident andrei sakharov. he won a nobel peace prize in 1975. the president of the parliament martin schultz praised malala for her strength. she narrowly survived an attack by islamist militants who shot her in the head as she was returning home from school. >> translator: her example encouraged a whole range of young girls and women to stand up for their rights and not allow themselves to be intimidated. >> the awards ceremony will take place at the parliament in november. malala is a favorite among experts and betting agencies to win the year's nobel peace prize to be announced on friday. >>> japanese prime minister shinzo abe wants to improve relations with two important neighbors. disagreements over territory and history have left japan's ties with china and south korea strained. abe proposed some changes after attending the east asia summit in brunei. >> translator: we shouldn't close the door on dialogue just because we have

the european parliament president called her one of the most remarkable people of the 21st century. in the united states, efforts to end the government shutdown and agree on a debt ceiling continue this week. on thursday, house republicans put forward a plan that would give a short-term debt limit increase and reopen the government. that would give congress time to agree on new spending cuts and a .udget the obama administration would avoid a default on government bonds. the president is happy that cooler heads seem to be trailing -- prevailing in the house. that there are at least seems to be a recognition that default is not an option. >> a u.s. debt default would be unprecedented and have implications for the global economy. friday saw the long-awaited announcement of the nobel peace prize in the norwegian capital of oslo. year, the award went to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. ofthe conventions and work opcw have defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law. recent events in syria, where chemical weapons have again been used, h

but because all of this is going on about spies, the leader of the european parliament in germany has suggested that those talks about the free trade agreement should be suspended until it's all sorted out. so it's impending but i think it will be settled >> and joining us from watertown, massachusetts, jim walsh, a research associate in studies in m.i.t., and two very distinct mind sets, one saying that everyone spies on everyone else, and the other saying this time it's out of bounds. this a big deal? >> you know, del, i think that you put it exactly right. and in some way it captures my mind too. i'm of two minds. spying is as old as foreign policy. a lot of these countries have asked for or benefited from u.s. intelligence, and would probably do it if they could pull it off but can't. i get all of that. but on the other side of the ledger, there's domestic politics. voters in those countries are very happy with the u.s. surveillance practices, and those leaders have to respond to that. and this makes them look weak and compromised in front of their own domestic political audience,

. >> the president of the european parliament praised her for what she's done. martin schulz said she's shown people that fight for democracy will prevail in the end no matter how long it takes. >>> diplomats are trying to use their influence to bring the two sides in syria's civil war together. they're hoping to persuade leaders of syria's main opposition group to attend an international peace conference. but opposition leaders are resisting. diplomats from the united states and russia have been trying for months to organize peace talks. their latest plan is to hold a conference next month in geneva. represents of 11 western and arab countries met in london to try to move the process forward. they agreed opposition leaders need to be united if they hope to put an end to the civil war. but some of those leaders refuse to sit down with representatives of syrian president bashar al assad. the british foreign secretary offered some reassurances. >> assad would play no role in that future government of syria. >> opposition leaders are not convinced, including the he

the fact the european parliament yesterday voted to halt a data sharing agreement with the americans regarding the financing of terror activities -- not a binding vote, though. other suggestions out of european sources saying maybe we can think about limiting access americans can have to our data, creating a europe-only data cloud. but remember how much trade and information goes back and forth between the eu and america. it is very hard to see how it will work. one suggestion that other alleged -- and that other alleged victims have been making -- the brazilians -- they are suggesting maybe we will get internet companies to host data about brazilians on servers stored in brazil that are much harder for americans to get access to. and that is one idea. there is definitely around the world that our government starting to make noise about america, and i think america has to take notice. much, indeed.ery sexual violence against women in egypt has now reached epidemic proportions. that is the view of human rights campaigners, and a recent you one study suggested nine out of 10 egypt and w

the big risk is that this election will bring the most anti-european parliament ever. because in many countries-- like mine, of course, but also in france or in other countries-- we have the race of populist parties, anti-europe and anti-euro. that will be a big problem, of course because we had these five years of crisis, austerity, lack of growth, and lack of jobs. jobs is the true problem of europe and first of all jobs for youth. we risk to have a sort of lost generation, the generation of youth today. we have to help them and we have to give them opportunities. this is why hope is so important today and this is why structural reforms are so important. so my mission, our mission is to defeat populism but challenging populism with concrete answers on jobs and growth and that is, i think, the main issues today. >> woodruff: well, in connection with that you have the issue of immigration and this tragic incident of a few weeks ago, the boat of migrants coming from the continent of africa. they were headed to the island in lampedusa, there was a terrible accident. hund

while we have been on air, the european parliament has been holding a key vote on regulating the tobacco industry and trying to make cigarettes less attractive to young people. they are considering bans on packages of 10 cigarettes and regulating e-cigarettes. let me bring you what they have decided. this is a vote in strasburg. they have rejected many of the proposals that were put in front of them. let me give you a recap. they voted against regulating the electronic cigarettes as a medicinal, that was a proposal, treating them as medicinal. they voted against a ban on slim cigarette, but they have voted in favor of a ban on mental also gretz that it would only come in -- menthol cigarettes, but it would only come into effect after several years delay. they voted for a role which would mean 65% of cigarette packets would be covered in health warnings. the proposal had been to have 75% of a packet covered. they're gone for 65% of the package to be covered in health warnings. those are the proposals that are being voted on. with me now, the director of policy and research at the anti- .m

a delegation from the european parliament visiting washington is worried about the surveillance of 10smillions of its citizens and one report from spain suggests the nsa tracked 60 million calls in the country in the space of a month. >> we need to figure out why this kind of activity is happening and what kind of trust needs to be rebuilt. in the end we are fighting a battle in terms of security and we need to get that balance right and we have to talk about security and we made it very clear and mostly there is a balance to be struck of privacy of citizens and think these need to be built of that very important trust. >> reporter: the parliament is planning a session to discuss u.s. spying. and if a special committee is set it it may call witnesses including merkel and edward snoden, the whistleblower who revealed the program and has been given asylum in russia. >> reporter: and a video emerged during hostages in the philippines being shot at during a siege last month and they were caught in the cross fire and they fought rebels in the southern city of zambauwanga. >> the maker of th

. >> just this week, malala yousufzai received the european parliament's prize for freedom of thought. really is amazing. >> amazing young woman. >>> opportunitying down to the do or die game for the oakland a's, counting down to the game, roberta gonzales live at the coliseum with your game day forecast. bring it on. >> reporter: i am the first one to arrive here today officially because we have been here since 4:00 this morning, frank and michelle. we now have some people milling around here. they are predominantly people that work here. we do have, however, the parking gates now open to the public officially as of noon. and then we will have the stadium gates directly behind me here that you're taking a look at. they will open up to the public to enter the coliseum beginning at 3:00 this afternoon. so that's officially two hours before the first pitch is tossed. this is the decisive game. the backs are up against the wall. winner take all. however you want to say it, this is it. either the oakland a's win this game or their season is over. and if you are coming on out to the game t